Midnight's Children is an internationally popular, Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie that has now been adapted for the screen. It is a historical fantasy fiction based on the times before and after the Independence and Partition of British India.he movie stars Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Siddharth Narayan, Shahana Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Rahul Bose, Seema Biswas, & Darsheel Safary.